Cassel is one of the toughest QBs in the NFL. Even people that hate Cassel will acknowledge that. And when the Chiefs were operating at their highest level, Cassel was calling the plays in a hurry up offense.

And secondly, you can't just look at the numbers and assume Smith is any good, which is a concept that's pretty foreign to you. Smith doesn't throw it deep, he doesn't throw it outside the hash marks. He's been an awful qb for 80% of his long career. His own damn coach tried to replace him numerous times and the second he had a chance to, he did.

Many of us feel the same way about your defense of Geno Smith when it comes/came to the 1st overall pick.

Says the guy who just mocked Geno to the Chiefs #1 in his most recent mock draft?

I never once said Geno was the best player in this draft, just that he made the most sense to the Chiefs based on where they were picking and their current needs. If you still want to refute that, go ahead, but you'll still be wrong. Or at least would have been before this trade.

Says the guy who just mocked Geno to the Chiefs #1 in his most recent mock draft?

I never once said Geno was the best player in this draft, just that he made the most sense to the Chiefs based on where they were picking and their current needs. If you still want to refute that, go ahead, but you'll still be wrong. Or at least would have been before this trade.

When I do a mock I don't do what I think a team should do, I mock on what I think they will do.

In the offseason after Smith had success, Harbaugh actively tried replacing him with another qb. They did not immediately give Smith a contract.

Smith then proceeds to see if there is any interest in him in the open market. Nobody wants to touch him with a 10 foot pole.

He's left coming back to SF after their attempts of replacing him failed, and he signs a deal to stay, but it's a team friendly deal that they can move on from if need be, which already shows their own concerns about him as a player.

He then proceeds to play. The second he's hurt, he's benched and replaced.

They then proceed to trade him in the offseason.

If his own team and coaching staff essentially just smeared **** on him for the past 2 years, why would anyone else want him? Don't they know what he is better than anyone on the outside?

Philadelphia, Minnesota, Tampa Bay, Arizona, St. Louis, Buffalo, Miami, New York Jets, Kansas City (looking prior to trade), Oakland, San Diego, Cleveland, Jacksonville and Tennessee all have experienced mediocrity or worse at the quarterback position. Miami has the youth in Tannehill but he has a ton of developing to do yet. A 2nd round pick for a QB who is mediocre to slightly above is the going rate in the league today.

And the combined super bowl rings from those team over the past decade (or more) is how many?

Oh, that's right, 0.

So the Chiefs can settle with a mediocre QB because it's ok! the rest of the league is doing it!

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BTW, if it's 3rd and 97... I'm throwing a screen pass to Brian Leonard and he will convert.